Garden Writers

Taking Houseplants Outdoors in the Spring

Houses are often stuffy for plants when the weather is mild and pleasant. Most houseplants thrive in the fresh […]

Brides traditionally wear or carry “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.” Gardens—whether they are arrays of ...

Tomatoes have made an epic evolutionary journey from the currant-sized fruit of their wild ancestor to the beefsteak behemoths of […]

Compact berries for containers are popular, and more and more varieties are being developed for container culture. Compact blueberries are […]

An oceanside garden poses special challenges for plants. The wind-whipped salt-laden air and sandy soil typical of such sites is […]

Most home gardeners likely think of the lush, reliable Boston fern when thinking about ferns as houseplants, but there are […]